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The Most Fun We Ever Had de Claire Lombardo

The Most Fun We Ever Had

Autor Claire Lombardo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2021

Descoperim în primele pagini imaginea unei căsnicii care pare să sfideze legile uzurii: Marilyn și David Sorenson, după patru decenii, sunt încă absorbiți unul de celălalt, o formă de devotament care devine, paradoxal, o moștenire greu de gestionat pentru cele patru fiice ale lor. The Most Fun We Ever Had nu este doar o cronică de familie, ci o examinare metodică a modului în care dragostea părinților poate umbri sau modela destinele copiilor. Claire Lombardo își construiește debutul cu o maturitate surprinzătoare, alternând între prezentul complicat al surorilor Sorenson și trecutul care le-a definit. Găsim aici o Wendy care își îneacă doliul în alcool, o Violet bântuită de o decizie din tinerețe, o Liza prinsă într-o relație ambivalentă și o Grace care și-a construit întreaga existență pe o aparență fragilă. Cititorul care a apreciat disecția subtilă a legăturilor de sânge din A Modern Family de Helga Flatland va găsi aici aceeași atenție la detalii și nuanțe psihologice — dar într-un context american mult mai expansiv și mai zgomotos. Deși este o lucrare de debut, cartea se simte ca o piesă centrală în opera lui Claire Lombardo, anticipând temele despre maturizare și regrete explorate ulterior în Same As It Ever Was. Stilul este unul bogat, aproape tactil, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra a ceea ce înseamnă să aparții unei familii care te iubește prea mult, fără a ști întotdeauna cum să o demonstreze.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780525564232
ISBN-10: 0525564233
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 128 x 203 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Anchor Books

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o proză contemporană densă, axată pe relații umane complexe. Este un roman despre „mizeria” superbă a vieții de familie, unde umorul se împletește cu patosul. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care secretele și așteptările nespuse se transmit între generații, totul într-un stil care amintește de marii realiști americani moderni.

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A heartwarming, expansive saga spanning nearly half a century that examines the peaks and chasms of the familial bond. When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents'. When Jonah Bendt, the son of one of the daughters, who was given up in a closed adoption fifteen years ago, arrives, he will upend the Sorensons' world and expose secrets hidden for years. Lombardo's debut explores the triumphs and burdens of love, the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood, and the baffling mixture of affection, abhorrence, resistance, and submission we feel for those closest to us. In painting this luminous portrait of a family's becoming, Lombardo joins the ranks of writers such as Celeste Ng, Elizabeth Strout, and Jonathan Franzen as visionary chroniclers of our modern lives.

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'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler ... an outstanding debut, assured and highly enjoyable' Observer'Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan ... A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood' Sunday Times'As good as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections or Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad; it is almost impossible to believe that it is a debut.

The Most Fun We Ever Had is as good as books come' Telegraph'Like Meg Wolitzer. A forensic dissection of family past and present, I loved it. If you like reading about relationships, this one is for you.' Pandora Sykes MEET THE SORENSON FAMILYMARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married toDAVID, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person.

WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young,while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. LIZA, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she lovesand GRACE, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects. 'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles'Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers

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Lombardo's impressive debut is a gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory. She juggles a huge cast of characters with seeming effortlessness, bringing each to life with humour, vividness and acute psychological insight.
If ever there were to be a literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler, then Claire Lombardo's outstanding debut, which ranges from ebullience to despair by way of caustic but intense familial bonds, would be a worthy offspring...This is a novel epic in scope-emotionally, psychologically and narratively. Combining a broad thematic canvas with impressive emotional nuance, it's an assured and highly enjoyable debut.

I cancelled appointments to keep reading this totally gripping portrait of a marriage and the four daughters that it has produced. It is excellent on sisterhood, motherhood, marriage - in fact on all human relationships. Highly, highly recommended.
Beware this book, that will enmesh you in the psychic DNA of this utterly convincingly imagined family. You will encounter characters whose stories you're compelled to follow, you will recognise the bitterest and sweetest tastes of life, you will laugh, and you will want to discuss it with other people. (Possibly not your own family). John Irving has a literary daughter, and her name is Claire Lombardo.
I adored The Most Fun We Ever Had. It is such a shockingly tender and uncannily knowing novel about the reality of long term love and affection, and the sweetness and claustrophobia of relationships between sisters. Lombardo's writing is so elegant - she makes our most complex and fragmented feelings tangible, which is a very rare skill. This book will stay with me forever.
Remarkably alive and wise, Claire Lombardo's story of the Sorensons is a stunning vision - not just of family or love, but the funny, tender mystery of human connection itself, with all its intensity, charm, and wonder.
Claire Lombardo has created a wonderful, subtle and sophisticated portrait of a family. The nuances, the secrets, the triumphs and tragedies light up this narrative with the many ways we love and the unremitting clarity with which we are known by our siblings. Epic and intimate, funny and delicate, this is a best friend of a book: curl up with it and lose yourself in the easy intimacy of the magnetic, loveable and flawed family of Sorensons.
In The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo has given us a truly unforgettable American family. The book bristles on every page with intelligence and fierce wit. What a debut!
This amazing, sexy, moving, transfixing novel sweeps you up into the epic range of human emotion, from tenderness to exasperation, bafflement to pride, anger to unconditional love that is intrinsic to family life. And how those oh-so-familiar hairpin bends of parenthood and of marriage are so beautifully juxtaposed with the infinite complexities and blind corners of being a daughter, a sister, a friend, a lover! I couldn't quite think of what to do with myself when I came to the last page except read it all over again.
A funny, complex, tragic and immersive family sage which spans forty years. This is the perfect, engrossing holiday read
A novel to make a note to pack for summer travels ahead
A rich, engrossing family saga, spiked with sisterly malice...[rendered] with such skill and finely tuned interest that it feels like a quiet subversion of the traditional family saga.
Ambitious and brilliantly written
A wonderfully immersive read that packs more heart and heft than most first novels...A deliciously absorbing novel with-brace yourself-a tender and satisfyingly positive take on family.
The big family saga of the summer
You'll be glad this loopy family isn't yours, but reading about them is a treat.
A sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt...A fun and brimming tale...Divine
An expansive U.S. family saga, expertly rendered
Lombardo has a wry, often spiky humour and tightly written style that should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan ... A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood.
A spry, sly and funny read
An exploration of the complex tapestry that is family life, full of delights and difficulties
I love this book, and the Sorensons, so much